socket
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Featuring illuminated eyes in the film, and with original wiring in the right socket, this particular C-3PO head boasts several unique features including a forehead antenna.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
Preserved in nearly perfect three-dimensional detail, the skeleton includes a skull with a huge eye socket and an elongated, sword-like snout.
From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026
He needed to get it onto a two-foot-long metal rod called a socket extension.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
A single socket is rated at 13 amps and ESF's website provides an interactive socket calculator to illustrate combinations which could cause an overload.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
He’d placed the monocle on the tufted fur beneath his socket, then peered into the pond’s reflection.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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